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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of town is Ponyboy from?

2. What does Cherry do to Dally at the drive-in?

3. What is the name of the horse that Soda loved?

4. What does Dally give to Ponyboy and Johnny when they go to see him after the fight in the park?

5. Who wrote the poem that Ponyboy recites to Johnny?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ponyboy tell Cherry and the others about Darry as they are walking to Two-Bit's house?

2. What strikes Johnny about the characters in Gone With The Wind?

3. What do Johnny and Ponyboy do in the vacant lot?

4. Describe the park that Johnny and Ponyboy go to in Chapter 4.

5. What does Dally tell Ponyboy and Johnny to do when the come to him for help after the park fight?

6. Explain how Ponyboy and Johnny are heroic during the fire.

7. What injuries do Ponyboy and Johnny sustain in the fire?

8. What does Dally do when Johnny asks if his parents are worried about him?

9. What do Cherry and Ponyboy talk about while getting concessions at the drive-in?

10. Why do Johnny and Ponyboy go find Dally after the fight in the park?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the relationships between the Curtis brothers. What is Ponyboy's relationship with Darry like? With Soda? How do these relationships change throughout the novel? What events change these relationships, and how?

Essay Topic 2

Examine Dally as the hero or martyr of the novel. What heroic behaviors does he display? Why do the younger boys look up to him? What can they learn from his life?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the setting of the novel. What time period is it, and what type of place do the characters live in? What activities, slang, etc. "date" the novel? What impact does this setting have on present-day readers? Is it more difficult to connect with the characters? What significance does the setting have to the events of the novel? Could the events have just as easily happened today? Why or why not?

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